Gut microbiome and drug metabolism, bacteria and concrete, transposons in metagenomes.
Note: My lab does not longer allow me to run this blog under work hours, so I will do all my literature searches in my free time from now on. 😦 Not sure how this will affect the contents and frequency, but this is such a sad development. My sincere apologies! I will still strive to have a good representation of the new literature in the microbiome field, even it this means I will have to prepare this post at 1 AM (as I do now)
Pregnancy and birth
Review: The human gut microbiota in perinatology and neonatology – Josef Neu – Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine
Human oral microbiome
PCR-based detection of composite transposons and translocatable units from oral metagenomic DNA – Supathep Tansirichaiya – FEMS Microbiology Letters
Animal microbiome
Insights into Symbiont Population Structure among Three Vestimentiferan Tubeworm Host Species at Eastern Pacific Spreading Centers – Maëva Perez – Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Human gut microbiome
Review: Gut Microbiome Interactions with Drug Metabolism, Efficacy and Toxicity – Ian D. Wilson – Translational Research
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Methyl Mercury Formation in Hillslope Soils of Boreal Forests: The Role of Forest Harvest and Anaerobic Microbes – Rose-Marie Kronberg – Environmental Science & Technology
Divergent habitat filtering of root and soil fungal communities in temperate beech forests – Kezia Goldmann – Scientific Reports
Extremophile microbiome
First insight into microbial diversity and ion concentration in the Uyuni salt flat, Bolivia – Cesar A. Perez-Fernandez – Caribbean Journal of Science
Built environment microbiome
Analysis of bacterial communities in and on concrete – Julia A. Maresca – Materials and Structures
Metagenomics
Exploring divergent antibiotic resistance genes in ancient metagenomes and discovery of a novel beta-lactamase family – Nicolás Rascovan – Environmental Microbiology Reports
Microbes in the news
Book Review: Multitudes of Praises for Ed Yong’s “I Contain Multitudes” – Anne Estes – Mostly Microbes
The Slow Growth Movement – Or Why Microbiologists May Have Been Doing it All Wrong – Jeffrey Marlow – Discover Magazine
Discharge pipe could be source of bacteria at Oxford treatment plant – Zach Tyler – The Anniston Star
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I truly appreciate your dedication on this matter.
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“Note: I am no longer allowed to run this blog under work hours”
Is there anything we can do about this? I guess our comments in the previous post on this subject wasn’t enough…
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Thank you for your amazing blog! I really appreciate the relevant overview of the field, I come here everyday (it’s now my homepage).
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I am so sorry to hear about this development!! I feel like so many people underestimate the importance nowadays of blogs, twitter accounts or other forms of ‘social’ media to connect the scientific community to itself but also to the public.
Thank you for your effort!
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Sorry to hear that Elisabeth… considering you started this because you felt you needed to be up-to-date with research for your role (and the blog was just an after thought) it does seem a shame
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Very sorry to hear about the sad development. This blog greatly benefits my understanding of the current literature on all kinds of fields in microbiome research. I wonder if we can write a letter together to your boss to indicate the support and need for this wonderful Digest!
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